Harbor Police Officers Involved in Fatal Shooting of Double Homicide Suspect ID’d

Authorities on Thursday publicly identified the Port of San Diego Harbor Police officers who were part of a Little Italy shootout that followed a double homicide.

Patrick Lynch, who has been with the agency for two months, suffered a bullet wound to the hip in the Nov. 13 exchange of gunfire with ex-security guard Christopher Farrell, according to the San Diego Police Department.

Farrell was wounded when two of Lynch’s Harbor Police colleagues, Cpl. Jason Day and Officer Alexander Kahn, returned fire. Paramedics took the suspect to a hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.

Day has been employed by the Harbor Police for about six years, and Kahn for roughly nine.

Lynch, a one-time SDPD officer who was undergoing field training for his new job when he was wounded, did not fire his weapon during the shootout.

Less than an hour before Lynch was shot, Farrell allegedly gunned down a former girlfriend and her husband as the couple was sitting in a car in the 1300 block of Union Street, near the downtown San Diego County courthouse.

The victims, Rachael Martinez, 31, and Jose Medina, 39, died at the scene. Police said it is likely they were planning to attend a court hearing concerning a restraining order against Farrell at the nearby Hall of Justice.

Following that shooting, Farrell allegedly fled north on Ash Street, reloading his gun as he headed to Little Italy, where he ended up near Kettner Boulevard and West Juniper Street and encountered the Harbor Police.